Road closures and temp traffic lights for nothing/no need

[cheesefest]

This year already there have been 3 lots of road closures with diversions and temp traffic lights for 2-3 days with nothing done on two of them and the other - a hole dug into the pavement! This is with temp traffic lights!

What’s the point of closing roads for no work done and expect people to drive over half a mile more due to diversions? Plus the hole in pavement with temp traffic lights is causing traffic jams and the whole road is gridlocked.

It’s time for contractors to close roads when actual road works are done. Plus there’s been various holes dug up in pavement down this road before without the need to use traffic lights.

All works were planned

 

[cheesefest]

Another thing I've noticed is all of the illuminated traffic bollards on are being replaced with cheap, un-lit bendy plastic ones.

Then within a week they have been run down and snapped off the bottom (I think lorries might be doing it for fun). More pointless waste of money.

Only for litter wombles like myself to retrieve from a ditch!

Same goes for the various roadwork signs. These cost money and most of the signs are universal- road closed, diversion with moveable arrow etc.

I don’t remember the last time I saw a light on top of every 6-8 cones.

 

[cheesefest]

One of my favourite benign conspiracy theories is that the miles of cones on motorways and elsewhere with no obvious sign of roadworks is because otherwise it would cost money to store them all somewhere.

About 20 years ago, mum’s friend was driving down a motorway and a lorry knocked over a cone and went under the car! Total right off and took an absolute age to get the contractor to pay up